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To: mr.mark who wrote (5536)	9/4/1999 5:07:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) of 110653

Hi mark and jw, Taking a picture of your screen and posting it is pretty easy. You need three things: a web page, a graphics program, and an FTP client. My ISP gives me 10MB of free space which is quite a lot if you're just posting small graphics and text files. If they give you space then chances are they will have instructions for accessing it. There are programs for building web pages (I've never used one), or you can just use your page like an FTP site which is just a list (or tree) of files for downloading. See, this is my "web page" -- really just an FTP site because I haven't set it up with html: home.rochester.rr.com FTP client: I use one called WSFTP32. It's free: download.com Here's a picture of the setup screen: home.rochester.rr.com The top line where I have "RR" is just the name I've given to the current "profile". This profile connects you to your web page when you hit "OK". You can have as many pre-configured profiles as you have FTP sites to connect to. The next line is the home address of your ISP's user web-page server. In this case: home.rochester.rr.com . That is the "parent directory" for your web page. If you go to my web page and remove the "wily2" from the address bar and then hit ENTER you will get the parent directory and you can scroll down and see "wily2" in the list. That's how FTP sites work. Probably most of the entries on the list are actual web-pages which just means they were created as html documents rather than a list of files like mine (lazy). If you go to my page and find the file in the list: FTPClient and click on it -- that's the link I have posted above -- the picture of the setup screen. It's a picture I uploaded to my page. The other two lines you have to fill in on the setup screen are UserID and password. Usually User ID is the name you give to your page and password is the same as you use when you log on to your ISP, but these may vary. Taking pictures: "Print Screen" captures the entire desktop to the Windows clipboard. If I hit "print screen" and then start up my graphics program and then use the "Edit/Paste" function in the program, I get the picture of the desktop. Windows has a couple of very rudimentary graphics programs that you can use to view what you've captured: "Clipboard Viewer" and "Paint". If you don't want the whole desktop but just want to capture one screen, click on the screen to make it active (the title bar turns blue) and then hit alt/print screen. Final ingredient: Graphics program. My favorite is PhotoImpact by Ulead: download.com It's 30-day shareware but I believe it's possible to extend this by turning ahead your computer's clock before installing it and then turning it back afterwards. I haven't done this successfully yet because I always screw something up but I think it can be done. Or you can just buy it pretty cheap on ebay. I can't use it right now 'cause my time is up <g>. I'm using Polyview now which isn't anywhere near as nice. Then just create a jpeg of the image and upload it to your site (with your FTP client). Go to your site, click on the file you just uploaded and it will open the image in your browser. The address in the address bar will be "your home page address"/"name of the file". Just copy that address into your post and that's it! You want to make sure that the jpeg isn't too large or it will take some people a long time to open the link if they have 56K. That's why you want to save the image as a jpeg rather than a bitmap. Be careful when you start working with graphics because bitmaps will fill up your hard-drive in no time -- especially big ones. I do a search every once in a while on my entire computer for "*.bmp" to make sure I haven't forgotten to get rid of or convert any bitmaps. And last, Photoimpact and other programs allow you to enlarge or reduce the dimensions of your image. Remember that if you have your monitor set to a resolution of eg. 800X600, that is what size image will just fill up your screen. (More on PhotoImpact in this post: techstocks.com ) Happy FTPing! w

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